Animal trap



T. YAMASAKI.

ANIMAL TRAP. APPucATmN FILED JAN. 16, 19 22.

1&25355. t ntedAug- 8, 1922.

T Yamms'aki a X I o I ATTORNEY.

INVEN TOR.

N E T ANIMAL TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A110. 8, 19 22.

App1ication filed January 16, 1922. Serial No. 529,428.

To (ZZZ 207mm it may concern.

Be it known that I, TSNNEJIRO YAMA- SARI, a ritizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State. of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal Traps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to animal traps, and has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction and increase the efiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to be constructed of any required size or material and adapted to trap animals of any size and species without material structural change.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of the improved traps in elevated or set position.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1 with the trap in closed or lowered position.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. at is a detached perspective view of the latch member of the improved trap.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the bait carrying element of the improved trap.

The improved device comprises a base member 10 which may be of wood 0; metal as preferred, and formed with an inclined recess or seat 11 near one end.

-Hinged at 12 to the base at the end opposite to the seat 11, is a cage device represented as a whole at 13, preferably open wire work as shown, but may be of any of the other suitable materials.

The cage is thus free to swing vertically at its unhinged end to enable it to be disposed with its free end elevated as shown in Fig. 1, or bearing by its lower edge upon the base 10 as shown in Fig. 2.

hen elevated as in Fig. 1 the animal to be trapped can pass beneath the cage and when the cage is disposed as in Fig. 2, the trapped animal cannot escape.

One or more springs 14 connect the cage to the base and operate to quickly close it when the animal springs the trigger mechanism and holds the cage closed against the efforts of the animal to escape.

Supported loosely by its lower end in the seat 11 is a standard device represented as -'awhole at 15, and divided at the upper end as at 16 and with one or more intermediate lateral stop shoulders '17.

Pivoted at 18 in the divided portion 16 is a latch member 19 having toe? portion 20 at one end to extend beneath the lower edge of the cage 13 when the latter is elevated, as shown in Fig. 1, and with the other end preferably V'shaped as shown at 21.

' The lower end of the standard 16 is at right angles to its longitudinal axis, so that when disposed in the inclined seat 11 the standard leans at its upper end toward the cage, as shown in Fig. 1, so that when released it will fall toward the cage and be prevented thereby from vfalling, as hereinafter more fully explained.

Connected at one end at 22 to the V shaped portion of the latch member is a flexible member, such as a cord, 23 and connected at 24 at its other end to a trip memher in the form of a rod 25 with an enlargement 26 at one end and curved slightly as at 27 at the other end.

Connected to the standard 15 is a stop member, for illustration in the form of a U shaped wire 28.

When the trap is to be set, the cage 13 is elevated at its free end and engaged with the toe portion 20 of the latch member and the trip member 2% disposed beneath the stop 28 with the enlargement 26 at the side of the stop opposite to the flexible member 23. The bait carrying member, with the bait previously attached, is disposed beneath the lateral stop shoulder 17 and above the curved portion 27 of the trip member, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The cage will thus be supported in its upper or set position as shown in Fig. 1, and thereafter the slightest disturbance of the baited end of the rod 29, for instance by an animal in the effort to consume the bait, will disengage the rod from the trip and release the latch member and permit the springs 1% to quickly close the cage and trap the animal..

As before stated, the standard 15 being initially disposed in a leaning position toward the cage, when the trap is sprung a d pec slhe pre err d bo nt o nve tion; is disclosed in the drawings and set forth in the specification, but it will be understoodtlrat; modifications Within the scope of the claimed invention may he made; in

the construction, Without departing from the ptincir l 9f. invention or ac fi ing any of its advantages. It

Hav ng u ful y; escr b dhe in tion, what is elaimed as new, is:

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i-a wea cage When elevated, a trip member adapted to engage the stop; of; the-standard, means for movably couplinv the trip member to r a bait carrying member bearing beneath said stop shoulder and Engaged by the free end of the trip memer. a i

2. An animal tra comprising a base sup port having an inclined seat near one end, a cage hingedto: the base at the end opp0- site to the 'seat, a standard bearing in the seat of the base and having a stop extending therefrom and an intermediate lateral sto a shoulder, a latch member pivoted intermec i ate the ends to the standard and adapted to engage the free end of the cage When elevated, atrip member adapted to engage thestop off thes'tandard, means for movably coupling the trip member to the latch memher, and a bait camying member bearing beneath said stop shoulder and engaged by theifree end of the trip member.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signat ne h reto- TSNNEJIBO YAMASAKI- 

